America: Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1841 - Atlantic States |
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... continued and unbroken chain of evidence as to the sentiments entertained and recommendations offered by the first six presidents of the United States , in favour of public support for institutions of general education . The same ...
... continued and unbroken chain of evidence as to the sentiments entertained and recommendations offered by the first six presidents of the United States , in favour of public support for institutions of general education . The same ...
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... continued to exercise its beneficial influence during the whole time that crime was increasing , and may actually have prevented it from still greater increase . " Whether crime in our Union has in general , of late , increased or not ...
... continued to exercise its beneficial influence during the whole time that crime was increasing , and may actually have prevented it from still greater increase . " Whether crime in our Union has in general , of late , increased or not ...
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... continued for upward of twenty years , has proved abundantly what many still affect to dis- believe or doubt , that the female intellect is in no degree whatever inferior in its capacity to receive and retain instruction in the highest ...
... continued for upward of twenty years , has proved abundantly what many still affect to dis- believe or doubt , that the female intellect is in no degree whatever inferior in its capacity to receive and retain instruction in the highest ...
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... continued to be used till the year 1715 , a period of 59 years . At that time the church was found too small , and the inhabitants determined on erecting a larger one . But , with characteristic fondness for preaching , and for Divine ...
... continued to be used till the year 1715 , a period of 59 years . At that time the church was found too small , and the inhabitants determined on erecting a larger one . But , with characteristic fondness for preaching , and for Divine ...
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... continued for at least double the time of the former , and by it the worshippers were wrought up to such a pitch of fervour , that they were evidently on the point of some vi- olent outbreak or paroxysm . Accordingly , the whole ...
... continued for at least double the time of the former , and by it the worshippers were wrought up to such a pitch of fervour , that they were evidently on the point of some vi- olent outbreak or paroxysm . Accordingly , the whole ...
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Page 445 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 316 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 410 - Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 313 - They nourished up ~by YOUR indulgence ! They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them...
Page 313 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Page 23 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 316 - Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 23 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights...
Page 83 - For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
Page 84 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.